Saturday, August 1, 2015

Skylar Donovan has come to her late father’s Colorado cabin to find answers to explain his death. Instead she meets a handsome forest ranger with a dark side. A stranger who is willing to protect her from an unknown assailant. A stranger who also appears in her dreams as something other than a man. He’s werewolf, and he satisfies Skylar Donovan like no mere man ever has.

Gavin Harris was bitten by a monster in the hills he has sworn to protect and now searches for that beast. But his deadly mission unites him with a beautiful blonde bent on a search of her own. Neither is safe from the evil they’re stalking—but the forbidden lust that burns between them might be the greatest danger of all.

About the Author

Linda is the author of contemporary, paranormal romance, and urban fantasy books for Kensington, Amazon Montlake, GothicScapes, Harlequin Nocturne, and Harlequin Desire. She loves more than anything to write, and has a resident Muse who loudly sings all these stories to her.

Linda swears that all of her books come loaded with good karma for the readers, for helping to support her writing dreams.

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Have you ever felt like all of your friends had forgotten about you? Have you ever felt left out? This is exactly what happens to Birdie in Outside, Inside. When Birdie does not see his friends around, he decides to go out and look for them. He quickly finds that something strange is going on. Birdie’s friends are really planning a super fun surprise that gives Birdie a change of heart. Outside, Inside is a simple story about the joy of friendship and giving. Using 35 easy words and vivid, colorful characters, this story is enchanting for the youngest of readers.

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About the Author

Cindy Helms is a visual artist, author and illustrator known for designing unusual projects. For Cindy, art is created from curious and whimsical combinations of shapes, textures and colors. In her unique and simple children’s books, Cindy’s art work comes to life in characters that enchant children and adults alike. Cindy lives in the Denver, CO area with two artistic boys and two fat black cats. She loves road trips, camping and discovering new places.

I would love to make writing my career. It’s actually my
dream to be able to write stories full time. As the saying goes: “Do something
you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.”

#2 – What was the Hardest Part of Your Writing Process?

I usually answer revisions, but at this point in my life
I’ll answer finding the time to. I have two books I’d love to finish and am so
close to finishing, but trying to squeeze the time to do so is just difficult.

#3 – Did you have any One Person Who Helped You Out with
Your Writing Outside of Your Family?

My friend Jayne Thurber-Smith helped me out a lot! She’s a
writer as well and has also beta-read and edited some of my past work. There’s
something fun and educational about bouncing my ideas off with another writer.

#4 – What is next for your writing?

I am currently finishing book #2 to the Two Outta Three
Series called “One and Done” as well as finishing up book #3 to the Caught Inside
series which is called “On the Outside.”

I have a habit of jumping between multiple books at once :)

#5 – Do you have an addiction to reading as well as writing?
If so, what are you currently reading?

YES!! In fact, my love for writing stemmed from my obsession
for reading. I’ve been a bookworm basically before I could even read! My mom
used to read me stories and I couldn’t get enough of them. I’m currently
reading “Blue” by H.J. Bellus

Thanks to her Mom’s unwavering devotion to read a bedtime story to her every single night throughout her childhood years, S. BRIONES LIM’s love for books began before she could even speak.

Raised in Southern California, Author S. Briones Lim initially dreamt of becoming an artist and/ or Book Author. A Psychology Degree (Summa cum Laude), a stint in Art School, and a career in Advertising/Media later, she is finally delving back into her first love – books. As a self- renowned bookworm, S. Briones Lim’s love for books has inspired her to pen her own novels and hopes her readers will fall in love with her stories as much as she enjoyed writing them.

Author of the Amazon Bestselling novel, Caught Inside, S. Briones Lim’s other obsessions include time with family, POPCORN, watching movies and her dogs, Tobi and Roscoe. She currently lives on the East Coast with her husband and continues to write every day.

Rory’s once promising ballet career was destroyed by family tragedy and illness. She turned her life around and became a lawyer. Now at the start of her legal career, she lacks passion in her work and self-confidence in her abilities. But when she meets gorgeous, mysterious Russian ballroom dancer, Sasha, at a firm holiday party, her passions for life and dance are immediately re-kindled.

Since being torn from his Siberian family as a child, Sasha’s life ambition has been to be world ballroom champion, a path he was destined for until his former partner pulled the plug on their partnership. She went on to win the world title, leaving him, without a partner equal in ability, forever in second place. The instant he lays eyes on Rory, he recognizes the depth of her passion and talent, and falls hard for her in more ways than one.

But she also reminds him of great pain from his past. He must not only overcome his own demons but convince her to leave her demanding law career, and all that she has worked for in her adult life, to train with him full-time in order for their partnership – both on and off the dance floor – to work.

Yes, definitely. I’m still working at my day job, doing
contract-based legal work, but I would love more than anything to write full
time.

#2 – What was the Hardest Part of Your Writing Process?

Having the time to do it. I work at my day job sometimes ten
or more hours a day, staring at a computer. So, it’s hard to come home and look
at a computer some more! Fortunately, I do contract-based assignments, so
sometimes I have months between projects. That’s when I get most of my writing
done. I just write, write, write for eight or more hours each day when I have
time off like that.

#3 – Did you have any One Person Who Helped You Out with
Your Writing Outside of Your Family?

I met a really wonderful writer when I first moved to Los
Angeles named Robena Grant. She was assigned to be my mentor in the LA chapter
of RWA (Romance Writers of America) and she went far and above her duties with
me! She really helped me, carefully reading the entire first drafts of all
three manuscripts that formed the Fever series, and making both line edits and
suggesting substantive changes. She’s super knowledgeable in romance writing
and was incredibly helpful to me. I am so grateful for her support!

#4 – What is next for your writing?

I am working hard on the next romance novel in the
Infectious Rhythm series. It’s set in the same Hollywood studio in which Rory
and Sasha’s story is set, and involves some characters readers have met in the
Fever series.

#5 – Do you have an addiction to reading as well as writing?
If so, what are you currently reading?

Yes, definitely! I recently got back from the RT Booklovers
Convention in Dallas and I came home with about 70 books! It’s so hard to decide
which to begin first. So, I’m currently reading three of them at once: Emma
Chase’s Overruled, Christina Lauren’s Sweet Filthy Boy, and Sylvia Day’s
Captivated by You.

French fries. I like the shoestring ones, with a really
delicious, garlicky dip.

#4 – Comedy or Drama?

That’s hard. Depends what I’m in the mood for. How about
Dramedy?

#5 – Danielle Steel or Nicholas Sparks?

Danielle Steel.

#6 – Fantasy or Reality?

Fantasy! I like escape J

#7 – Call or Text?

Text

#8 – Public School or Home School?

Public School

#9 – Coffee or Hot Chocolate

Hot Chocolate. With whipped cream.

#10 – eBook or Paperback?

I have to go with eBook. As much as I love holding a
physical book in my hands, with its fun, colorful cover, I ultimately value
being able to change the font and brighten the screen and carry all my books
with me on one small device.

After working for many years as a criminal appeals attorney in New York, Tonya Plank now lives and writes in Southern California. A former amateur ballroom dancer, she wrote the dance blog, Swan Lake Samba Girl. Her first novel, Swallow, won several awards, including gold medals in the Independent Publisher and the Living Now Book Awards, and was a finalist in ForeWord’s Book of the Year and the National Indie Excellence Awards.

When not writing, she enjoys taking road trips with her rescue dog, Sofia, devouring Mexican food and Cadillac margaritas, sweating to dance-based workouts, cuddling up with her cats and a good book, and seeing dance performances of any kind. Her favorite places in the world are Lincoln Center in New York City, the Pacific Coast Highway from Laguna Beach to San Francisco, and the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah.

To connect with her, please find her at www.tonyaplank.com where she tries to blog regularly.

When a mutilated body of an African American girl is found in a park sandbox, the media shows no interest. Instead, their attention is riveted on the disappearance of Olivia Safra, a college student and only child of the powerful and dangerous Richard Safra. Suspended ADA, Beck Oldman, demoted to a rookie PI is assigned her first cases to find a missing teenager and Olivia Safra.

Leads connect the murders to the Safra case. The investigation into her client's private life reveals a dark side in the relationship between a father and daughter and exacts his wrath against Beck. More girls are found murdered, putting Beck in a race to stop a serial killer and stop her own client from destroying her.

PURIFIED is a thrilling story that explores many dark subjects, including what it does to those who have to live in the world of killers in order to stop them.

Elizabeth S. Sullivan was born in Chicago and grew up in the LA area. Impassioned by social justice issues, inspired by her parents, she pursued teaching and earned a law degree. She has written five screenplays, one short. Her screenplays have placed or won such as: Nicholl, Austin, Page, and American Zoetrope. These recognitions garnered her a manager, Alexia Melocchi, Little Studio Films. Her first novel, PURIFIED, portrays a strong female protagonist in the genre of a noir thriller. Sullivan explores issues of race, gender, privacy in the cyber age. She has written several blogs on of women in fiction featured on Venture Galleries. She is busy working on the sequel to PURIFIED and a new screenplay.